TOURING IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
The Playground Craze brings live theatre directly to your school. These incursions teach students about cyber safety, confidence and resilience through hip hop dance and pop music.
The performers are young role models who students look up to, so they are able to deliver important messages about social and emotional wellbeing in a fun and engaging way.
Each performance includes a Question and Answer session at the end and access to our online video courses, albums of positive pop music, teacher resources and lesson plans to continue the learning in the classroom.
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In The Zone
For Kindergarten to Grade 6 students
CYBER KINDNESS
For Grade 2 to Year 8 students
YEARS TOURING
SCHOOLS VISITED
AUDIENCE MEMBERS
Frequently Asked
Questions
Feel free to Contact Us – we’d be very happy to answer any questions you have.
The performers will arrive at your school an hour before the scheduled show time. After checking in with your school administration office, we will make our way to the performance venue. The equipment will be unloaded and carried into the space, where the set, costumes and audio equipment will be set up.
The audience will come in and find their seats, we can either perform for students sitting on the floor or on chairs. When everyone is ready and all the class groups have arrived, let one of the performers know and the show will begin!
The performance duration is 60 minutes, including the question and answer session at the end. After the show is over, we will hand back over to the teachers to instruct the students to leave the performance space. The students quite often want to engage and talk with the performers, so we will be around to chat, give high fives and even autographs.
You will have received emails with lesson plans, music and videos to share with the teachers to use in their classrooms after the performance.
- A 60 minute live theatre performance incursion at your school.
- Important social and emotional wellbeing themes and topics, aligned with the curriculum.
- Young, professional, amazing performers who will have a big impact on your students and provide a memorable experience.
- Post show Question and Answer session when students also have the opportunity to ask the actors questions.
- Teacher and Classroom Resources, including:
- Important and helpful documents such as a permission slip, newsletter insert, Working withe Children Checks, Public Liability compliance documents and everything else you need to prepare for the day.
- Curriculum-aligned classroom resources, including lesson plans, extension activities and worksheets.
- Access to our two albums of positive pop music written especially for primary schools.
- Music Videos to enjoy with your students before and after the show.
- Access to our online video course.
- Full support from our team, who are always available guide you through the process and answer any questions you may have.
Yes! After touring to schools for the past 10 years with The Playground Craze (and 10 more years with other theatre-in-eduation companies) we can provide everything your school could need – we’ve been asked about it before! It is important to us to provide a safe environment for our audiences and our staff, so we have ticked all the boxes and are fully compliant with school and workplace policies.
If you would like to see all of the documentation we provide along with our performances, please click here.
The Playground Craze can adapt to perform in many kinds of spaces – halls, gyms, classrooms, libraries, undercover spaces, we have done it all! We bring our own microphones, speakers and sound system so you don’t have to worry about anything. All we need is a clear space (4m x 4m and enough room for the audience) and access to a powerpoint.
During the booking process we will discuss with you how many students you have and what kind of performance venue you have access to. Together, we will work out how many students would be optimal to have in the audience, to ensure they have the best experience. Generally, we usually have between 100 and 300 students in each audience.
“Most engaging show I have seen for schools in many years. Spot on. Everything was super! It really connected with all students and had really important messages.”
Carolyn, Ballarat Specialist School
“Fantastic! Great Performers! The students loved it and could relate to the stories. Relates to curriculum aims perfectly! Highly recommended.”